McLeod v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. (1987), DeBlanc v. State (1990)
34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sullivan v. Berliner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district judge shall request the Presiding Judge to assign a judge of the Administrative District to hear any motions to recuse such district judge from a case pending in his court.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““Under the Texas Constitution, it is the duty of the judge to sit save ‘in any case wherein he may be interested, or where either of the parties may be connected with him, either by affinity or consanguinity, within such a degree as may be prescribed by law, or when he shall have been counsel in the case,’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) A district, statutory probate, or statutory county court judge shall: [[Image here]] (3) request the presiding judge to assign another judge to hear a motion relating to the recusal of the judge from a case pending in his court[.] (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.